I have very little connection to the past, personally, so I think of people as individuals and no one is responsible for the sins of the British Empire but the people alive then. A 25 year-old Israeli is just as removed from the Nakba as I am from the 7 Years War (aka the the French-Indian War in American textbooks).
Some people can trace their lineage back 50 generations and I love that. I had a project in college where we were supposed to make a family history. It was a population geography class and the professor was great. But I was like, “Shit, I know everyone was Cajun but I don’t know how they ended up in Louisiana.” I was at the Library of Congress looking up boat records on Microfiche trying to figure out who went to Quebec to be a fur trapper or whatever.
So, I put less weight on the past and more on the future. How can we get Palestinians autonomy and control over their land and water. The concept of someone not being able to get a passport because of bullshit from 80 years ago is anathema to me. We live in the future and we can’t right the wrongs of the past. But we can write the future.
I love ethnostates!
I have very little connection to the past, personally, so I think of people as individuals and no one is responsible for the sins of the British Empire but the people alive then. A 25 year-old Israeli is just as removed from the Nakba as I am from the 7 Years War (aka the the French-Indian War in American textbooks).
Some people can trace their lineage back 50 generations and I love that. I had a project in college where we were supposed to make a family history. It was a population geography class and the professor was great. But I was like, “Shit, I know everyone was Cajun but I don’t know how they ended up in Louisiana.” I was at the Library of Congress looking up boat records on Microfiche trying to figure out who went to Quebec to be a fur trapper or whatever.
So, I put less weight on the past and more on the future. How can we get Palestinians autonomy and control over their land and water. The concept of someone not being able to get a passport because of bullshit from 80 years ago is anathema to me. We live in the future and we can’t right the wrongs of the past. But we can write the future.
I’m not talking about the past, I’m talking about the present and the general concept of Israel overall.